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Rh The hameles behaviour of the protitutes, who infet the treets of London, raiing alternate emotions of pity and digut, may erve to illutrate this remark. They trample on virgin bahfulnes with a ort of bravado, and glorying in their hame, become more audaciouly lewd than men, however depraved, to whom this exual quality has not been gratuitouly granted, ever appear to be. But thee poor ignorant wretches never had any modety to loe, when they conigned themelves to infamy; for modety is a virtue not a quality. No, they were only bahful, hame-faced innocents; and loing their innocence, their hame-facednes was rudely bruhed off; a virtue would have left ome vetiges in the mind, had it been acrificed to paion, to make us repect the grand ruin.

Purity of mind, or that genuine delicacy, which is the only virtuous upport of chatity, is near akin to that refinement of humanity, which never reides in any but cultivated minds. It is omething nobler than innocence; it is the delicacy of reflection, and not the coynes of ignorance!

The reerve of reaon, which, like habitual cleanlines, is eldom een in any great degree, unles the oul is active, may eaily be ditinguihed from rutic hynes or wanton kittihnes; and, o far from being incompatible with knowledge, it is its fairet fruit. What a gros idea of modety had the writer of the following remark! 'The lady who aked the quetion whether women may be intructed in the modern ytem of botany, conitently with female delicacy?—was accued of ridiculous prudery: Rh